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91-535: American Jed Sunden founded the Kyiv Post weekly newspaper on 18 October 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. The newspaper, which went online in 1997, serves Ukrainian and expatriate readers with a general interest mix of political, business and entertainment coverage. The 50-member staff is a team of mainly Ukrainian journalists, numbering 35 editorial team members and 15 in the commercial division as of 10 January 2020, including 40 Ukrainians. Historically,

182-513: A TV broadcast of her smashing prison windows during one of the rallies. At the time, Tymoshenko wanted to organise a national referendum to impeach Kuchma. Our government was doing almost an underground work under the rigorous pressure of president Kuchma and criminal-oligarchic groups. All anti-shadow and anti-corruption initiatives of the Cabinet of Ministers were being blocked, while the Government

273-528: A broad opposition bloc against Kuchma, in order to win the Ukrainian presidential election of 2004 . In late 2002, Tymoshenko, Oleksandr Moroz ( Socialist Party of Ukraine ), Petro Symonenko ( Communist Party of Ukraine ) and Yushchenko ( Our Ukraine ) issued a joint statement concerning "the beginning of a state revolution in Ukraine". In the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, the communist party stepped out of

364-443: A company that supplied the agriculture industry of Dnipropetrovsk with fuel from 1991 to 1995. Tymoshenko worked as a general director. In 1995, this company was reorganized into United Energy Systems of Ukraine. Tymoshenko served as the president of United Energy Systems of Ukraine , a privately owned middleman company that became the main importer of Russian natural gas to Ukraine, from 1995 to 1 January 1997. During that time she

455-416: A crime. My only "crime" has been to fight the corruption, shadow economy and totalitarianism that have been created by this president of Ukraine. Yulia Tymoshenko Prisoner of Conscience and Former Deputy Prime Minister, Ukraine. In March 2001, Pechersk District Court (Kyiv) found the charges groundless and cancelled the arrest sanction. According to Tymoshenko, the charges were fabricated by Kuchma's regime at

546-564: A native of Syria . In October 2024, Adnan Kivan died, and his son, Ruslan Kivan, took over as the publisher of Kyiv Post as well as Kadorr Group. Sunden's KP Media sold the newspaper to British citizen Zahoor on July 28, 2009. Zahoor owns the ISTIL Group and is a former steel mill owner in Donetsk . Zahoor published the newspaper through his Public Media company. In an interview with the Kyiv Post published on August 6, 2009, Zahoor pledged to revive

637-576: A political and economic association agreement with the European Union . The Kyiv Post published hundreds of stories in print and online about the revolution, which ended in Yanukovych fleeing to Russia on February 21–22, 2014. The first Kyiv Post story about the revolution was published on November 22, 2013. After Yanukovych and many members of his government took up exile in Russia, the Kyiv Post covered

728-596: A prominent politician in Ukraine. She was not included in the list of "100 richest Ukrainians" in 2006. Tymoshenko entered politics in 1996, when she was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) in constituency No. 229, Bobrynets , Kirovohrad Oblast , winning a record 92.3% of the vote. In Parliament, Tymoshenko joined the Constitutional Centre faction. In February 1997 this centrists faction

819-452: A second time on April 30, 2013, as the newspaper underwent deep budget cuts, but reinstated him on September 1, 2013. After Zahoor's purchase on July 28, 2009, he has had six chief executive officers, including American James Phillipoff (July 2009-July 2011), Michael Willard (July 2011-August 2013), Jakub Parusinski (September 2013-August 2014), Nataliya Bugayova (August 2014-December 2015) and Luc Chenier (August 2016 – March 1, 2018). Bugayova

910-521: A video-rental cooperative, perhaps with the help of Oleksander's father, Gennadi Tymoshenko, who presided over a regional film-distribution network in the provincial council. From 1989 to 1991, Yulia and Oleksandr Tymoshenko founded and led a commercial video-rental company "Terminal" in Dnipropetrovsk, In 1991, Tymoshenko established (jointly with her husband Oleksandr, Gennadi Tymoshenko, and Olexandr Gravets) "The Ukrainian Petrol Corporation",

1001-479: Is Brian Bonner, an American citizen who became the editor in the summer of 1999 and returned on June 9, 2008. He continued to serve until Nov. 19, 2021. Bonner's tenure was interrupted briefly twice. The first came on April 15, 2011, when publisher Mohammad Zahoor fired him for publishing an interview with then-Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysazhnyuk, who is currently on Ukraine's wanted list on suspicion of massive corruption. The 2011 interview with Prysazhnyuk included

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1092-854: Is a Candidate of Economic Sciences. Tymoshenko is the leader of the Batkivshchyna ( Ukrainian : Батьківщина ) political party. She supports Ukraine's integration into the European Union and strongly opposes the membership of Ukraine in the Russia-led Eurasian Customs Union . She supports NATO membership for Ukraine . She co-led the Orange Revolution and was the first woman twice appointed and endorsed by parliamentary majority to become prime minister, serving from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes magazine's list of

1183-522: Is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first and only woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997 and 2007, and presently as of 2014, and was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex from 1999 to 2001. She

1274-482: Is a direct instruction from Yanukovych. This is purely political repression – this is obvious" Yulia Tymoshenko's press briefing on 12 May 2010 Tymoshenko's husband, Oleksandr, spent two years (2002–2004) in hiding in order to avoid incarceration on charges the couple said were unfounded and politically motivated by the former Kuchma administration. On 30 December 2010, the US State Department informed

1365-592: Is also a center for investigative journalism . Bonner, besides serving as chief editor, was also the regional coordinator of the Objective Investigative Journalism Project, funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 2013-2017 along with Olga Rudenko , the Kyiv Post 's deputy chief editor since Oct. 6, 2017. Stories were published at mymedia.org.ua and other news outlets. Ex- Kyiv Post staff writer Vlad Lavrov, meanwhile,

1456-452: Is less than $ 25,000 a month. It has but 19 editorial staff; it has faced repeated attacks from regime-allied oligarchs. The fact its reporting survives at all, let alone flourishes, comes down to the unlikeliest of pairings: a journalist from Minnesota and an Anglo-Pakistani billionaire. Each has his own reasons for loving Ukraine, and the Post brought them together. On 8 November 2021, the newspaper

1547-651: Is now on Ukraine's wanted list on suspicion of massive corruption. During the Yanukovych administration, the Kyiv Post faced and overcame three distinct political threats to its survival during the administration of President Viktor Yanukovcyh (February 27, 2010 – February 22, 2014). However, the biggest threat may be economic, not political. Many Central and Eastern European English-language newspapers, including The Moscow Times , The Prague Post and The Sofia Echo , have ceased their print publications in light of falling advertising demand and changing readership patterns online. America media analyst Ken Doctor chronicled

1638-416: Is the first woman appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine . The Tymoshenko cabinet did not have any other members of party Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc besides Tymoshenko herself and Oleksandr Turchynov , who was appointed the chief of Security Service of Ukraine . The ministers who were working with her took her side in the later confrontation with Viktor Yushchenko. On 28 July 2005, Forbes named Tymoshenko

1729-566: Is the regional coordinator for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, whose donors include the U.S. Agency for International Development. A group of Kyiv Post journalists in 2013 launched the Media Development Foundation, a nongovernmental organization that has raised $ 865,000 in the last five years to support independent journalism in three ways: The Kyiv Post was one of the media outlets that participated in

1820-885: The 2016 Panama Papers investigation . Kyiv Post employees also launched a second nongovernmental organization, the Free Press Foundation, to support independent journalism projects. The Kyiv Post launched a Ukrainian-Russian-language version of the paper on July 16, 2010 to reach a mass audience, but discontinued the project in May 2012. During this period, the editorial staff reached a record high of 30 members. The Kyiv Post has had 15 chief editors since its first edition on October 18, 1995. They include Andrea Faiad, Igor Greenwald, Askold Krushelnycky, Tom Warner, Greg Bloom, Diana Elliott, Scott Lewis, Paul Miazga, Andrey Slivka, Roman Olearchyk, John Marone, Stephan Ladanaj, Zenon Zawada and Jakub Parusinski. The longest-serving chief editor

1911-626: The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" faction in March 1999 in protest against the methods of Lazarenko. "Fatherland" was officially registered as a political party in September 1999, and began to attract the voters who had voted for Yevhen Marchuk in the October 1999 presidential election. In 2000, "Fatherland" went in opposition to President Kuchma. From late December 1999 to January 2001, Tymoshenko

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2002-545: The InterContinental Hotel in Kyiv and issued a statement of support Zahoor reinstated Bonner as senior editor on April 20, 2011, elevating him to chief editor again later in the year. The incident garnered international attention as a barometer of the state of freedom of the press in Ukraine. One example of the news coverage included a story from The New York Times on April 24, 2011. Zahoor also fired Bonner as chief editor

2093-475: The Kyiv National Economic University and received a Ph.D. in economics. Tymoshenko has worked as a practicing economist and academic. Prior to her political career, she became a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry, becoming by some estimates one of the richest people in the country. Before becoming Ukraine's first female prime minister in 2005, Tymoshenko co-led

2184-563: The Kyiv Post 's challenges in an April 17, 2014, article. The Kyiv Post also was featured in the September/October 2014 edition of the Columbia Journalism Review . Under the headline, the "Kyiv Post's unlikely success" author Oliver Bullough writes that: The more you learn about the Kyiv Post , the more you realize how remarkable it is that it holds its own against these [other media] behemoths. Its newsroom budget

2275-649: The Kyiv Post hired three new foreign correspondents - Iryna Somer in Brussels , Askold Krushelnycky, a former chief editor of the Kyiv Post , in Washington, D.C.; and Olena Goncharova in Edmonton, Canada. Somer left her Brussels position at the end of 2018. In 2013, the Kyiv Post covered what became known as the Euromaidan , which began on November 21, 2013, triggered by then-President Viktor Yanukovych 's broken promise to sign

2366-646: The Kyiv Post launched Kyiv Post+, a special public project covering Russia's war against Ukraine and the aftermath of the Euromaidan Revolution; the coverage continues today, although the marketing campaign Kyiv Post+ was discontinued in February 2016. In October 2014, the Kyiv Post started a Reform Watch project to track the progress under President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in eliminating corruption and bureaucratic obstacles to democratic progress and economic growth. In November 2021

2457-406: The Kyiv Post replied in a joint statement that the sudden closure came on the heels of Kivan's attempt to "infringe" on their editorial independence. Some of these reporters founded a new English-language publication named The Kyiv Independent , which is funded by donations and published its first newsletter on 26 November 2021, and its website on December 2. Kivan later stated he intended to make

2548-522: The Kyiv Post . Commercial director Alyona Nevmerzhytska became acting chief executive officer in March 2016 until Chenier took over in August 2016. After Chenier's departure on March 1, 2018, Brian Bonner took over the duties of the CEO but retained his title as chief editor amid the transfer to Kivan's ownership. On 11 November, the new CEO of Kyiv Post was announced, Luc Chénier. On 24 December 2021, Bohdan Nahaylo

2639-578: The Kyiv Post . During times of intense national crisis, such as the Euromaidan Revolution and the Russian invasion of Ukraine , the Kyiv Post has relaxed its paywall and made its coverage available freely for a limited amount of time. The website currently provides many categories of stories for free, including its aggregated content, its opinions and editorials and its multimedia offerings, including video, cartoons and photo galleries. In August 2014,

2730-555: The Lukyanivska Prison where she was held in custody. In a letter to the editor of the British newspaper Financial Times , Tymoshenko claimed that Kuchma was consciously building a totalitarian system in the country: I believe that Mr Kuchma's regime may go so far as to eliminate me physically, not just politically, but I have made my choice and will continue to fight him by democratic methods. President Kuchma says I have committed

2821-539: The National Salvation Committee and became active in the Ukraine without Kuchma protests. The movement embraced a number of opposition parties, such as Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc , "Fatherland" , Ukrainian Republican Party , Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party , "Sobor" , Ukrainian Social-Democratic Party , Ukrainian Christian-Democratic Party and Patriotic Party. On 9 February 2001, Tymoshenko founded

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2912-526: The Orange Revolution . She was placed third in Forbes magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2005 . After graduating from the Dnipropetrovsk State University in 1984, Tymoshenko worked as an engineer-economist in the "Dnipro Machine-Building Plant" (which produced missiles) in Dnipropetrovsk until 1988. In 1988, as part of the perestroika initiatives, Yulia and Oleksandr Tymoshenko borrowed 5,000 roubles and opened

3003-606: The Supreme Court of Ukraine and the European Court of Human Rights . In the concluding days of the Revolution of Dignity, she was released after three years in jail . She again finished second in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election , this time to Petro Poroshenko . After being a heavy favorite in the polls for several years, she came third in the first round of the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election , receiving 13.40% of

3094-744: The Chicago Tribune in 2017; and Anna Yakutenko, who started her fellowship in March 2018. She was assigned to KCUR, the National Public Radio affiliate in Kansas City, Missouri. In June 2022, Anna Myroniuk and Andrei Ciurcanu were runners up in the European Press Prize 's Investigative Reporting Award for a story published in the Kyiv Post . The story revealed how Chinese Tobacco manufacturers were supplying smugglers of millions of cigarettes into Ukraine. The Kyiv Post 's print circulation

3185-707: The Dow Jones research database. Five Kyiv Post journalists have also won six-month fellowships through the Alfred Friendly Press Partners program, administrated by the University of Missouri's School of Journalism. They were Anastasia Forina, who worked at the Chicago Tribune in 2014; Oksana Grytsenko, who worked at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2015; Olena Goncharova, who worked at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2016; Yulianna Romanyshyn, who worked at

3276-521: The KADORR Group of companies that specializes in construction and agriculture. His wife, Olga, and three children participate in his business. He used to be active in metals trading in the Black Sea port city from 1991-2007. In October 2024, Adnan Kivan died leaving the company to his son Ruslan Kivan to take over as CEO of Kyiv Post and Kadorr Group. Sunden created the newspaper in the early years following

3367-542: The Orange revolution" in addition to her pre existing sobriquet from the 1990s decade as the "Gas Princess". Additional nicknames included "Goddess of the Revolution" and the "Princess Leia of Ukrainian politics". On 24 January 2005, Tymoshenko was appointed acting prime minister of Ukraine under Yushchenko's presidency. On 4 February, Tymoshenko's premiership appointment was ratified by the parliament with an overwhelming majority of 373 votes (226 were required for approval). She

3458-450: The Ukrainian government of its concern, and indicated that "the prosecution of Tymoshenko should not be selective or politically motivated. Once the charges were dropped, Tymoshenko reassumed her place among the leaders of the grassroots campaign against Kuchma for his alleged role in the murder of the journalist Georgiy Gongadze . In this campaign, Tymoshenko first became known as a passionate, revolutionist leader, an example of this being

3549-674: The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (the National Salvation Committee merged into it), a political bloc that received 7.2% of the vote in the 2002 parliamentary election . She has been head of the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) political party since the party was organised in 1999. On 13 February 2001, Tymoshenko was arrested and charged with forging customs documents and smuggling gas in 1997 (while president of UESU). Her political supporters organized numerous protest rallies near

3640-547: The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc established the Force of the people , a coalition which aimed to stop "the destructive process that has, as a result of the incumbent authorities, become a characteristic for Ukraine." The pact included a promise by Yushchenko to nominate Tymoshenko as prime minister if Yushchenko should win the October 2004 presidential election. Tymoshenko was actively campaigning for Yushchenko, touring and taking part in rallies all over Ukraine. After Yushchenko had dropped out of

3731-457: The agricultural minister's contradictory explanations about who is behind KlibInvestBud, a mystery company which sought to monopolize Ukrainian grain exports. The front-page story was published on April 15, 2011. Bonner's firing lasted only five days, after almost the entire staff went on strike in support of his decision to publish the article. On April 18 in Kyiv, a group of visiting U.S. senators met with Bonner and some Kyiv Post staff members in

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3822-443: The alliance, but the other parties remained allied and Symonenko was against a single candidate from the alliance (until July 2006). In March 2004, Tymoshenko announced that leaders of "Our Ukraine", BYuT and Socialist Party of Ukraine were working on a coalition agreement concerning joint participation in the presidential campaign. Tymoshenko decided not to run for president and give way to Yushchenko. On 2 July 2004, Our Ukraine and

3913-523: The behest of oligarchs threatened by her efforts to eradicate corruption and institute market-based reforms. On 9 April 2003, the Kyiv Court of Appeal issued a ruling that invalidated and cancelled proceedings on the criminal cases against Yulia and Oleksandr Tymoshenko. Despite Tymoshenko being cleared of the charges, Moscow maintained an arrest warrant for her should she enter Russia. In 2005, all charges were declared groundless and lifted. The criminal case

4004-538: The campaign due to his mysterious poisoning, Tymoshenko continued campaigning on his behalf. After the initial vote on 31 October, two candidates – Yanukovych and Yushchenko – proceeded to a runoff. As Tymoshenko earlier envisaged, Yushchenko received endorsement from former competitors who didn't make it to the runoff, such as Oleksandr Moroz (Socialist Party), Anatoliy Kinakh (Party of Industrials and Entrepreneurs), former Kyiv city mayor Oleksanrd Omelchenko and others. On 6 November 2004, Tymoshenko asked people to spread

4095-485: The cancellation of Yanukovych's official victory and the second round of the election, Yushchenko was elected president with 51.99% of votes (Yanukovych received 44.2% support). During the protests, Tymoshenko's speeches on the Maidan kept the momentum of the street protests going. Her popularity grew significantly to the point where the media began to refer to her as the Ukrainian or Slavic "Joan of Arc" as well as "Queen of

4186-575: The collapse of the Soviet Union, starting with $ 8,000 in capital, three computers and a staff of seven people working from a small flat in Kyiv . The first 16-page issue was put out by an editorial staff of two people. Sunden built the newspaper into a profitable enterprise, one that served the needs of the expatriate community that then regarded Ukraine as a potential hotspot for investment. During Sunden's tenure, he held to libertarian and anti-Communist views on

4277-495: The contest that Poroshenko easily won. Zahoor's purchase and significant investment improved a newspaper that had been badly battered by the global recession of 2008-2009 , a sharp downturn that struck the Kyiv Post particularly hard in October–November 2008. The Kyiv Post lost advertising and cut costs, but still ended the year in the black, the last profitable year of its existence. In the last months under Sunden in 2009,

4368-489: The decision to take down the paywall for online reading to make its content more democratic and freely accessible to the all audiences around the world to help promote and inform the world about Ukraine without having them to pay for access. KP Media KP Media was a Ukrainian publishing company, who published several magazines, including Korrespondent , Novynar , an English language newspaper, Kyiv Post , and owned several internet websites . KP Media

4459-775: The deputies voted against it. Tymoshenko was re-elected in 1998 , winning a constituency in the Kirovohrad Oblast, and was also number six on the party list of Hromada . She became an influential person in the parliament, and was appointed the Chair of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada. After Hromada's party leader Pavlo Lazarenko fled to the United States in February 1999 to avoid investigations for embezzlement, various faction members left Hromada to join other parliamentary factions, among them Tymoshenko, who set up

4550-528: The director of a public Jewish school in the city Sniatyn . Kapitelman was mobilized into the army in the autumn of 1940 and subsequently was killed while taking part in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) on 8 November 1944, with the rank of "lieutenant" in Signal corps . In 1977, Tymoshenko graduated from high school No. 75 in Dnipropetrovsk. Tymoshenko constantly helps the school. In 1978, Tymoshenko

4641-405: The editorial and opinion pages, but established the business model of editorial independence on the news pages. He said the policy is good for business and news. Sunden was controversial for allowing paid "massage" advertisements from women engaging in prostitution. After Zahoor bought the newspaper, he retained the entire editorial team. One of his first acts as publisher, however, was to eliminate

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4732-414: The editorial policy has supported democracy, Western integration and free markets for Ukraine. It has published numerous investigative stories, including coverage of the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze , in which ex-Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is a prime suspect; the 2004 Orange Revolution , in which a massive public uprising blocked Viktor Yanukovych from taking power as president after

4823-594: The formation of an interim Ukrainian government, the Russian annexation of Crimea on February 27, 2014, the start of the war in the Donbas in April 2014 and the May 25, 2014, election of Petro Poroshenko as independent Ukraine's fifth president after Yanukovych (2010–2014), Viktor Yushchenko (2005–2010), Leonid Kuchma (1994–2005) and Leonid Kravchuk (1991–1994). The Kyiv Post launched its website in 1997 under Sunden. Currently,

4914-458: The government had sufficient funds to pay civil servants and increase salaries. In 2000, Tymoshenko's government provided an additional 18 billion hryvna for social payments. Half of this amount was collected due to withdrawal of funds from shadow schemes, the ban on barter payments and the introduction of competition rules to the energy market. On 18 August 2000, her husband Oleksandr Tymoshenko, CEO of United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU),

5005-540: The journalism school in Columbia, Missouri , on October 28, 2014. Also in 2014, Moscow-based AGT Communications Company released the findings of its survey from November 21, 2013 to May 21, 2014, that found the Kyiv Post is the most-quoted Ukrainian source of news by American and European news organizations and the second-most quoted in Ukraine and Russia, after Russia's Kommersant. The findings were based on citations in Factiva,

5096-470: The last drop" that made him dismiss the government. On 13 September 2005, Yushchenko accused Tymoshenko of betrayal of "Orange Revolution" ideas. In his interview for the Associated Press, he said that during the time of her presidency at UESU, Tymoshenko accumulated an 8 million Hryvna debt, and that she had used her authority as prime minister to write off that debt. Tymoshenko has repeatedly stated that

5187-510: The mentioned amount was not a debt, but fines imposed by the Tax Inspection from 1997 to 1998, and that all the cases regarding UESU had been closed before she became prime minister. Tymoshenko blamed Yushchenko's closest circle for scheming against her and undermining the activities of her Cabinet. She also criticised Yushchenko, telling the BBC that he had "practically ruined our unity, our future,

5278-436: The newspaper and adhere to its tradition of editorial independence. On 21 March 2018, Odesa-based businessman Adnan Kivan, a Syrian native and Ukrainian citizen, purchased the Kyiv Post from Zahoor for a selling price both said was more than $ 3.5 million. Kivan pledged editorial independence of journalists in an interview with Kyiv Post chief editor Brian Bonner. The newspaper is operated by his Businessgroup LLC. Kivan owns

5369-428: The newspaper more advertisement-friendly. On 11 November 2021, Luc Chénier, whose background is in advertisement, was appointed as new CEO on the Kyiv Post . On 24 December 2021, Bohdan Nahaylo was appointed as new editor and the paper resumed publication. The Kyiv Post has only had three owners in its existence: Jed Sunden, an American; Mohammad Zahoor , a British businessman of Pakistani origin; and Adnan Kivan ,

5460-423: The newspaper should remain non-partisan even on its opinion pages. Zahoor relaxed the policy during the May 25, 2014 presidential election , when he and his wife, singer-actress Kamaliya , came out publicly in strong support of billionaire Ukrainian businessman Petro Poroshenko 's election as president. While the newspaper was free to endorse any candidate for the election, its editorial board made no endorsement in

5551-545: The newspaper's editorial staff shrunk to 12 members, its page count to 16 and its print distribution to 6,000 copies. Zahoor invested in journalists, increased distribution and improved newsprint. He boosted the page count—to 32 pages through much of 2010–2011, dropping back to 24 pages again through much of 2012-2013 and then to 16 or 24 pages since then. However, despite the investments, the Kyiv Post never regained consistent profitability, despite further staff and cost cuts, as print advertising continued to shrink, especially in

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5642-604: The once all-important sector of employment advertising. However, combined with Zahoor's subsidies, the newspaper has been able to minimize financial losses through special publications, such as the Legal Quarterly, Real Estate and Doing Business supplements, as well as special events, including the annual Tiger Conference and others. The start of an affiliated nongovernmental organization, the Media Development Foundation, also raises money for independent journalism. Kivan's first six months as owner have also seen renewed investment as

5733-451: The online paywall was removed. The Kyiv Post withstood numerous threats to its existence from 1995. According to audiotapes released by Mykola Melnychenko, bodyguard to ex-President Leonid Kuchma, then-tax inspector Mykola Azarov talked about conducting tax audits of the newspaper and other news outlets that criticized the administration. Azarov went on to become prime minister under President Viktor Yanukovych. He has since fled abroad and

5824-509: The orange symbols (orange was the color of Yushchenko's campaign). "Grab a piece of the cheapest orange cloth, make ribbons and put them everywhere" she said. "Don't wait until the campaign managers give those to you". When allegations of fraud began to spread, the "orange team" decided to conduct a parallel vote tabulation during 21 November 2004 runoff and announce the results immediately to people on Independence Square ( Maidan Nezalezhnosti ) in Kyiv. Tymoshenko called Kyiv residents to gather on

5915-444: The paid "massage" advertisements, saying he didn't want to own a newspaper that promoted prostitution. Zahoor sustained the policy of editorial independence, with limited exceptions. After the newspaper's editors endorsed Yulia Tymoshenko over Viktor Yanukovych for president in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election , the publisher issued a policy to forbid editorial endorsements of any political candidate or political party, saying

6006-509: The participants of the protest to the President's Administration. On Bankova Street, special riot police prevented the procession from going any further, so people lifted Tymoshenko up and she walked on the police's shields to the Administration building. On 3 December 2004, the Supreme Court of Ukraine invalidated the results of the runoff and scheduled the re-run for 26 December 2004. After

6097-406: The pipe industry and construction; and Ukraine's export of goods to Russia doubled. In the period of 1995 to 1997, Tymoshenko was considered one of the richest business people in Ukraine. When Tymoshenko made her initial foray into national politics, her company became an instrument of political pressure on her and on her family. UESU top management faced prosecution. Since 1998, Tymoshenko has been

6188-522: The post‐Revolution coalition began to damage Tymoshenko's administration. On 24 August 2005, Viktor Yushchenko gave an Independence Day speech during which he called Tymoshenko's government "the best". Yet on 8 September, after the resignation of several senior officials, including the Head of the Security and Defense Council Petro Poroshenko and Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko , Tymoshenko's government

6279-434: The rigged presidential election of 26 November 2004; the 2013–14 EuroMaidan Revolution that overthrew Yanukovych as president; the Russian invasion of Crimea ; the war in the Donbas region ; and Oligarch Watch. On 8 November 2021, the paper's website published a statement by owner Adnan Kivan announcing the temporary closing of the newspaper claiming "One day, we hope to reopen the newspaper bigger and better." Reporters at

6370-507: The slogan appeared in the first print edition and on the website home page under the masthead. In 2014, the Kyiv Post staff won the University of Missouri Journalism School's prestigious Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service in Journalism. The award was given to chief editor Brian Bonner and then-deputy chief editor Katya Gorchinskaya, who held the position from 2008–2015, at a ceremony at

6461-489: The square and asked people from other cities and towns to come and stand for their choice. "Bring warm clothes, lard and bread, garlic and onions and come to Kyiv" she said. On 22 November 2004, massive protests broke out in cities across Ukraine: The largest, in Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti, attracted an estimated 500,000 participants. These protests became known as the Orange Revolution. On 23 November 2004, Tymoshenko led

6552-540: The third most powerful woman in the world, behind only Condoleezza Rice and Wu Yi . However, in the magazine's list published on 1 September 2006, Tymoshenko's name was not among the top 100. In September 2005, Tymoshenko received the "Person of the Year of Central and Eastern Europe" award according to the 15th International Economic Forum in Krinitsa Gurska. Several months into her government, internal conflicts within

6643-484: The vote, thus failing to qualify for the second round. Elected to Ukraine's parliament in 2019, she led her party in opposition. Tymoshenko was born Yulia Hrihyan on 27 November 1960, in Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union . Her mother, Lyudmila Telehina ( née Nelepova), was born on 11 August 1937, also in Dnipropetrovsk. Yulia's father, Volodymyr Hrihyan, who according to his Soviet Union passport

6734-424: The website is updated seven days a week, approximately 10 hours a day, and includes Kyiv Post exclusive content, news and photos from wire services and aggregated articles from other news sources about Ukraine. The Kyiv Post launched an online paywall in March 2013. The erection of the paywall became financially necessary because of the decline in print advertising in the newspaper industry generally, including at

6825-457: The world's most powerful women in 2005. Tymoshenko finished second in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election runoff, losing by 3.5 percentage points to the winner, Viktor Yanukovych . From 2011 to 2014 she was detained due to a criminal case that was seen by many as politically motivated persecution by President Viktor Yanukovych, but after the Revolution of Dignity she was rehabilitated by

6916-520: Was Latvian , was born on 3 December 1937, also in Dnipropetrovsk. He abandoned his wife and young daughter when Yulia was between one and three years old; Yulia used her mother's surname. Yulia's paternal grandfather, Abram Kapitelman ( Ukrainian : Абрам Кельманович Капітельман ), was born in 1914. After graduating from Dnipropetrovsk State University in 1940, Kapitelman was sent to work in Western Ukraine , where he worked "one academic quarter" as

7007-409: Was 10,000 copies per week until Nov 11, 2021 where Luc Chénier , CEO of Kyiv Post made the decision to cease publishing the physical version of the news due to realistic economic reasoning such as a long need move to digital to reach a wider audience, the war in Ukraine and most importantly that its audience had shifted to the international market and was no longer in Ukraine itself. As well, Chénier made

7098-479: Was 56 lawmakers strong and, according to Ukrainska Pravda , at first it supported the policies of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma . In late 1997, Tymoshenko called for impeachment and the next Ukrainian Presidential elections to be held not in 1999, but in the fall of 1998. In late November 1997, the General Prosecutor of Ukraine asked the Verkhovna Rada to lift Tymoshenko's parliamentary immunity, but

7189-535: Was appointed as a Chief Editor of the Kyiv Post. The Kyiv Post 's longtime motto on its masthead was "Independence. Community. Trust." meant to underscore its commitment to high journalistic standards and ethical practices, in contrast to many Ukrainian news outlets where publishers and owners dictate editorial policy and advertising is disguised as news stories through the purchase of space known as "jeansa" or advertorials. The newspaper changed its official motto to "Ukraine's Global Voice" in February 2018, when

7280-474: Was appointed prime minister, but reinstated it after she was fired in September 2005. The prosecutors suspended it again when she came to Moscow for questioning on 25 September 2005. Tymoshenko didn't travel to Russia during her first seven months as prime minister (the first Tymoshenko Government ). In January 2002, Tymoshenko was involved in a car accident that she survived with minor injuries. In late 2001, both Tymoshenko and Yushchenko attempted to create

7371-581: Was being an object of blackmailing and different provocations. People were arrested only because their relatives were working for the Cabinet of Ministers and were carrying out real reforms that were murderous for the corrupted system of power. Yulia Tymoshenko Nezavisimaya Gazeta interview (25 October 2001) On 11 August 2001, civilian and military prosecutors in Russia opened a new criminal case against Tymoshenko accusing her of bribery. On 27 December 2005, Russian prosecutors dropped these charges. Russian prosecutors had suspended an arrest warrant when she

7462-568: Was closed in Ukraine in January 2005 due to lack of evidence, and in Russia in December 2005 by reason of lapse of time. On 18 November 2005, the Supreme Court of Ukraine issued a ruling which invalidated all criminal cases against Tymoshenko and her family. Despite this, the case was reopened in Ukraine since May 2010, after Yanukovych came to power. Tymoshenko on renewed cases against her: "This

7553-410: Was detained and arrested. Tymoshenko herself stated that her husband's arrest was the result of political pressure on her. On 19 January 2001, Kuchma ordered Tymoshenko to be dismissed. Then, Yushchenko silently accepted her dismissal, despite her achievements in the energy sector. Ukrainian media called it "the first betrayal of Viktor Yushchenko". Soon after her dismissal, Tymoshenko took leadership of

7644-511: Was dismissed by Yushchenko during a live television address to the nation. Yushchenko went on to criticize her work as head of the Cabinet, suggesting it had led to an economic slowdown and political conflicts within the ruling coalition. He said that Tymoshenko was serving interests of some businesses, and the government decision to re-privatize the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant (previously owned by Kuchma's son in law Viktor Pinchuk) "was

7735-596: Was enrolled in the Automatization and Telemechanics Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute . In 1979, she transferred to the Economics Department of the Dnipropetrovsk State University, majoring in cybernetic engineering and graduating in 1984 with first degree honors as an engineer-economist. In 1999, she defended her PhD dissertation, titled State Regulation of the tax system , at

7826-454: Was founded in September 1995 by American Jed Sunden, and its first publication was Kyiv Post , from which it takes its name. KP Media sold Kyiv Post to Mohammad Zahoor , the husband of Ukrainian pop singer Kamaliya , on 28 July 2009. This article about media in Ukraine is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( née Hrihyan born 27 November 1960)

7917-445: Was involved in business relations (either co-operative or hostile) with many important figures of Ukraine. Tymoshenko also had to deal with the management of the Russian corporation, Gazprom . Tymoshenko claims that, under her management, UESU successfully solved significant economic problems: from 1995 to 1997, Ukraine's multi-billion debt for Russian natural gas was paid; Ukraine resumed international cooperation in machine building,

8008-702: Was nicknamed the "gas princess". She was also accused of "having given Pavlo Lazarenko kickbacks in exchange for her company's stranglehold on the country's gas supplies", although Judge Martin Jenkins of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California , on 7 May 2004, dismissed the allegations of money laundering and conspiracy regarding UESU, Somoli Ent. et al. (companies affiliated with Yulia Tymoshenko) in connection with Lazarenko's activities. During this period, Tymoshenko

8099-422: Was temporarily shut down after the editorial staff's disagreement with planned changes to the outlet led to the owner firing all reporters, many of whom then joined the newly-founded Kyiv Independent . On 11   November, Luc Chénier was announced as the new CEO of Kyiv Post . The editorial team of the Kyiv Post founded The Kyiv Independent three days after its closure, on 11 November 2021. The Kyiv Post

8190-598: Was the Deputy Prime Minister for the fuel and energy sector in the cabinet of Viktor Yushchenko . She officially left parliament on 2 March 2000. Under her guidance, Ukraine's revenue collections from the electricity industry grew by several thousand percent. She scrapped the practice of barter in the electricity market, requiring industrial customers to pay for their electricity in cash. She also terminated exemptions for many organizations which excluded them from having their power disconnected. Her reforms meant that

8281-556: Was the former chief of staff to Economy Minister Pavel Sheremeta before becoming the first Ukrainian and first woman to be CEO of the Kyiv Post. Bugayova resigned to relocate and take a new job as the director of development for the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, D.C. Bugayova wrote her farewell column "Kyiv Post's values are made for new Ukraine" in the December 18, 2015, edition of

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